Tuesday, March 15, 2005
France takes the low road ... real low
I read this article and passed it on the Mrs. This just adds yet one more bullet item to my list as to why I think that Western Europe is beyond any hope of recovery. Just to get you started:
- Franck Vergondy, a 36-year-old welfare recipient, was the very picture of banality as he stood answering questions in court last week, accused of orchestrating the largest child-sex ring ever prosecuted in France. It is being called the biggest criminal proceeding in the country's history, a case with 66 defendants, 45 victims, 60 lawyers and 225 witnesses - a trial so enormous a special courtroom had to be constructed to accommodate it.
It took three days to read the 430-page description of the charges: a litany of horrors portraying a group of parents and friends who passed around their children for sexual pleasure; who sold prepubescent bodies for cigarettes and booze; who sipped coffee in Vergondy's government-financed apartment while their toddlers screamed "it hurts" in the next room.
- Vergondy's 61-year-old father, who served nine years for molesting him and is accused of raping his grandchildren weeks after he emerged from prison, told the court Thursday: "My kids, I don't love them. I never took care of them. I didn't give a damn."
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